{"id":567402,"date":"2026-02-05T05:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/567402\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:51:13","slug":"nyc-school-safety-agent-stabbed-while-breaking-up-fight-between-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/567402\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC school safety agent stabbed while breaking up fight between kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A female school safety agent was stabbed in the leg as she tried to break up a fight between two middle schoolers in\u00a0Brooklyn Wednesday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old\u00a0agent stepped in around 3:10 p.m. as the youngsters brawled on Beverley Road near Ralph Avenue, steps from\u00a0IS 285, the\u00a0Meyer Levin\u00a0Middle\u00a0School\u00a0for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush,\u00a0police said.<\/p>\n<p>The agent was knifed on the calf\u00a0and taken to the Kings County Hospital Center, where she is listed in stable condition, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38390301\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/authorities-respond-pepper-spray-incident-26318245.jpg\" alt=\"Authorities respond to a pepper spray incident at Meyer Levins Junior High School in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon. The incident allegedly effected up to 25 students. \" class=\"wp-image-38390301\"  \/>The agent, 53, was knifed on the calf when she stepped in as the two youths scuffled outside the Meyer Levin Middle School for the Performing Arts, cops said. Daniel William McKnight<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear whether the agent was knifed deliberately or happened to be cut in the fray as she intervened.<\/p>\n<p>One juvenile person of interest was taken into custody, with charges still pending\u00a0by the evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The school is home to about 750 students from grades 6, 7 and 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A female school safety agent was stabbed in the leg as she tried to break up a fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":567403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,4219,5248,167147,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,73474,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-567402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-middle-schools","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-school-safety","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116016466144254924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}